WINE
April 2012
John Adams's taste for dry — not sweet — champagne exemplified the changing palettes of the English upper classes
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March 2012
The terminology of modern wine-tasting is fussily analytical. Maybe it's worth heeding our sensory impressions, a la Sancho Panza
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January/February 2012
For Jonathan Swift, a medicinal hogshead was the perfect measure of wine
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December 2011
Decadent and consoling by turns, Massic was the poet Horace's aide-mémoire
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